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stay with us. . . andrew solomon here is he. he is a bestselling author. his intimate account of depression in the "noon day demon" one the national book award in 2001. his new book "far from the tree: parents, children and the search for identity" tells us stories of kids who experience life in a profoundly different way than their families. dr. eric candle writees, solomon a student of human behavior has written an intellectual history that lays the foundation for a 21st century psychological bill of rights. i am pleased to have andrew solomon back at this table. welcome. >> what a pleasure to be here. >> rose: talk about the title first. "far from the tree." these are not, as they say, the acorn never falls far from the tree. >> right. >> rose: you're talking about acorns that do fall far from the tree. >> exactly. so i kept trying to come up with a phrase that would summon this idea of how families deal with children who are radically different from them in some ways, and i kept thinking over a
stay with us. . . andrew solomon here is he. he is a bestselling author. his intimate account of depression in the "noon day demon" one the national book award in 2001. his new book "far from the tree: parents, children and the search for identity" tells us stories of kids who experience life in a profoundly different way than their families. dr. eric candle writees, solomon a student of human behavior has written an intellectual history that lays the foundation for a 21st...
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you don't need us to say. if the american people want to allow suicide they can do what washington did. i think washington has done. simply allow it by statute. >> rose: that is the system that you like to see? >> the point is not that i like to see it. it is a system we thought we had. but to come back to your question about whether the confirmation process is going to change, i think it took the american people 30 years to figure out what was going on, all of this evolving constitution stuff begins with the warren court, in force with the warren court. and once the american people figured out what was going on, the court was revising the constitution term by term, well my goodness, the old criteria for selecting justices and even lower court judges, they are not -- he is nice, he is a good lawyer but nice if he can read a text but the most important question will this person write the new constitution that i like? that is what the borg hearing was all about and that's what all the hearings since have been ab
you don't need us to say. if the american people want to allow suicide they can do what washington did. i think washington has done. simply allow it by statute. >> rose: that is the system that you like to see? >> the point is not that i like to see it. it is a system we thought we had. but to come back to your question about whether the confirmation process is going to change, i think it took the american people 30 years to figure out what was going on, all of this evolving...
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>> the tone was very scary. >> i felt like they might take us to the back of the street and kill us. >> never go home. >> i told my son to go to the park that night, i feel guilty. >> i don't know what you are talking about and got angry, you know you did it. >> for over 24 hours, that is amounts to pressure. >> these young men were guilty, it was almost unquestioned. >> the police controlled the story. they created the story. they seized on the fears of the people. the wilding, the characterization of the black man. >> this is no dna match whatsoever to any of these boys. >> i was going nuts. >> no blood on the kids, nobody could identify them. but if they confessed they confessed and that was that. >> a lot of people didn't do their jobs, reporters, prosecutors, defense lawyer. >> we convicted them and we walked away from our crime. >> the ultimate siren that says none of us are safe. >> rose: joining me now are two of the film makers sarah burns and her father, my friend ken burns, also joining us is raymond i santana one of the central park 5 i am pleased to have all of them here
>> the tone was very scary. >> i felt like they might take us to the back of the street and kill us. >> never go home. >> i told my son to go to the park that night, i feel guilty. >> i don't know what you are talking about and got angry, you know you did it. >> for over 24 hours, that is amounts to pressure. >> these young men were guilty, it was almost unquestioned. >> the police controlled the story. they created the story. they seized on the...
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stay with us. >> rose: julian sands is here. the british actor is famous for his roles in "the killing fields" "a room with a view" and the television series "24." he's performing a one-man show called "harold pinter" it's directed by john malkovich and playing at the irish repertoire theater. >> you're finally turning. one for you, one for me. >> every morning i wake up and go, oh, my god. i get to present a celebration of harold pinter. and it fills with me with joy and anticipation. it is raw and unplugged. it oozes the spirit of theater. >> i founded the theater with my partner charlotte miller. i'd say everything is irish about the irish repertoire theater. everything perhaps but maybe shamrocks and shell laylys. >> you worked very closely together. has it been a cloudless friendship? >> oh, yes, there's never a harsh word. the broken bones, the beatings, the humiliations i have that endured are a testament to how well we get along. >> but you did break bones here, didn't you? >> i fell down the stairs on the way down to th
stay with us. >> rose: julian sands is here. the british actor is famous for his roles in "the killing fields" "a room with a view" and the television series "24." he's performing a one-man show called "harold pinter" it's directed by john malkovich and playing at the irish repertoire theater. >> you're finally turning. one for you, one for me. >> every morning i wake up and go, oh, my god. i get to present a celebration of harold...
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stay with us. keira knightley is here after a broke outs-- breakout performance in bebd it like bechham she found her voice in films like pride and prejudice and a tonlt. her latest role from leo tolstoy, she plays the lead in joe wright and the adaptation of the the classic anna karenina. richard corelis of "time" magazine has written of her, a nervey performance, acutely attune to the changes, a creature must endure in her first leap into mad passion. she makes anna karenina an operatic romance worth singing about. i'm pleased to have her back at this table. welcome. >> thank you. >> rose: boy. so there's some of to talk about with you. so much to look forward to. here is the cover of vogue. >> yeah. >> rose: love story, keira knightley, the man in her life and the role of a lifetime. i assume the role of a lifetime is this role. >> must be, yeah. i think so i think that's quite safe to say. >> rose: did it turn out to be that way for you? >> well, i mean not knowing what is going to happen in th
stay with us. keira knightley is here after a broke outs-- breakout performance in bebd it like bechham she found her voice in films like pride and prejudice and a tonlt. her latest role from leo tolstoy, she plays the lead in joe wright and the adaptation of the the classic anna karenina. richard corelis of "time" magazine has written of her, a nervey performance, acutely attune to the changes, a creature must endure in her first leap into mad passion. she makes anna karenina an...
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i used to wait for the time when-- for the time of prayer i used to wait and i used to cry. you know, who is god? >> rose: this is where pi begins the journey. he were it is. this is our first scene. ♪ ♪ >> my name is pi. i have been in a shipwreck. i am on a lifeboat alone with a tiger. please send help. >> rose: what's happening in that scene? >> well, it's just like-- it's very hard to fin to define god. it is very hard to define what tiger is to pi. there are the obstacles of the beast. there's, you know, pi, the inner beast, the crouching tiger, so to speak, in him. so in the spiritual moment, in the hopelessness, his looking at his opponent, but at the same time, himself, the fearful tiger and also the truth of his own self, and this is the moment before he revealed himself to god, not religious god, but god in the abstract sense. as you can see, the water is like mirror. it's very reflective. it's a very introspective moment but in in the vast of the ocean. >> rose: i want to look at this clip as well. this is where a school of flying fish above pi and richard par
i used to wait for the time when-- for the time of prayer i used to wait and i used to cry. you know, who is god? >> rose: this is where pi begins the journey. he were it is. this is our first scene. ♪ ♪ >> my name is pi. i have been in a shipwreck. i am on a lifeboat alone with a tiger. please send help. >> rose: what's happening in that scene? >> well, it's just like-- it's very hard to fin to define god. it is very hard to define what tiger is to pi. there are the...
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all of us had access to general petraeus over the years when he wants us around and tell us something. but this was different. he really allowed her to go everywhere with him. he talked to her all the time. i've talked to many aides, they were concerned about it in afghanistan. they were concerned how it looked, the optics of having this woman all the time. they described her as gushy and inappropriate talking about his thoughts. you've seen her on several programs over the last week. and things she was saying about him. that made them uncomfortable. >> well like martha, i've known him for about a decade, covered him in these war jones. he's a disciplined man, a man with incredible force of will. as much as we talk about his counterinsurgency doctrine, when i think about what happened in iraq, it was really david petraeus' will power in that battle space in the way he changed people's expectations what was possible, what was striking. so to see a man of that intensity get involved with another very intense person paula broadwell, i'm surprised by the lack of discipline. you can see th
all of us had access to general petraeus over the years when he wants us around and tell us something. but this was different. he really allowed her to go everywhere with him. he talked to her all the time. i've talked to many aides, they were concerned about it in afghanistan. they were concerned how it looked, the optics of having this woman all the time. they described her as gushy and inappropriate talking about his thoughts. you've seen her on several programs over the last week. and...
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all of us found it pretty early, didn't we? >> relatively. that reminded me of... >> rose: before you went to college. >> murrow's journey, out of the lumber fields to washington state university, his teacher there, he was in a play and she recognized something. and from that moment on, and he attributes his career and his success to that woman who discovered a young sort of strapping, inept, relatively shy man who loved to tell stories. >> rose: yeah. >> and she formed him. i mean, it's what you do. you bring people around this table. how many people sat around this table? >> rose: for 22 years. >> for 22 years, exploring ideas. and i means, that's a real gift. >> rose: i tell you a story about this. that marlon brando was a fan of this program, the late marlon brando, and he used to call me up. and he said "you sit there every night and you listen to all these wise people. tell me what are you doing with it." i had no answer it is what you do. and you hope that one show influences another. and if you, because of the composite or the cumulat
all of us found it pretty early, didn't we? >> relatively. that reminded me of... >> rose: before you went to college. >> murrow's journey, out of the lumber fields to washington state university, his teacher there, he was in a play and she recognized something. and from that moment on, and he attributes his career and his success to that woman who discovered a young sort of strapping, inept, relatively shy man who loved to tell stories. >> rose: yeah. >> and she...
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he's a columnist for the "new york times" and coauthor of that used to be us, how america fell beyond the world we invented and how we can come back. david bureaucrats the author of social love and achievement. joining me is tom brokaw, special correspondent for nbc news and author of the times of our lives, a conversation about america. and jon meacham executive editor of random house and author of the fourth coming book, thomas jefferson the art of power. finally amy gutmann president of the university of pennsylvania and chair of the bioethics and quo author of the spirit of promise why campaigning under mines it. i am pleased to have each here for this information. what is it that this new president has to understand about america at this moment? >> well, i think that this new president is going to have to govern, and governing in a polarized society which we have and a society which has tremendous problem, budgetary economic, immigration, educational. the list goes on. governing is going to mean bipartisan deals. and so mario cuomo may have said that you campaign in poetry but yo
he's a columnist for the "new york times" and coauthor of that used to be us, how america fell beyond the world we invented and how we can come back. david bureaucrats the author of social love and achievement. joining me is tom brokaw, special correspondent for nbc news and author of the times of our lives, a conversation about america. and jon meacham executive editor of random house and author of the fourth coming book, thomas jefferson the art of power. finally amy gutmann...
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even so i would recommend somehow he not use tell prompters. f.d.r. knew when he was giving his radio chats that he needed people in the room so he could pretend he was talking to people. >> rose: here's the thing lyndon johnson never learned well. he never did. his tell prompter was called mother because he wouldn't go anywhere without mother. >> rose: and he made jokes about it himself but it is, in fact, learn to talk in a way that you are not reading. >> right. >> rose: so f.d.r., what does he learn from f.d.r. >> the most interesting thing he might learn from f.d.r. is if he does need to pivot somehow to make a better relationship with the business community so he can figure out a way to mobilize the country to be more competitive with global economy, to make sure we've got jobs that are really good jobs going forward. f.d.r. pivoted from dr. new deal to dr. win the war. he stopped his hostility toward the business community but he never let labor go. at the same time. and he gave antitrust regulations, he eased up on those. he gave profits to bu
even so i would recommend somehow he not use tell prompters. f.d.r. knew when he was giving his radio chats that he needed people in the room so he could pretend he was talking to people. >> rose: here's the thing lyndon johnson never learned well. he never did. his tell prompter was called mother because he wouldn't go anywhere without mother. >> rose: and he made jokes about it himself but it is, in fact, learn to talk in a way that you are not reading. >> right. >>...